A gem for extracting Airport mentions from short snippets of text. Just something I threw together as an experiment that's turned into an interesting hobby project.
gem install airport_scraper
or, in your Gemfile
gem 'airport_scraper'
scraper = AirportScraper.new
pdx1 = scrape.extract_airports("On my flight to Portland. Looking forward to kicking back at home.") pdx2 = scrape.extract_airports("Landing in PDX now. See you all soon.")
Both pdx1 and pdx2 would be an array with an Airport hash for Portland International Airport
multi = scrape.extract_airports("On @SouthwestAir #2992 heading from LIT to DAL and CEO Gary Kelly is on board!")
assert_equal ['LIT', 'DAL'], multi.map {|x| x['code']}
- Ways to limit scope to major airports only or specific countries
- More airport information
- Geocoding/WOEIDs for airports
- Ordering of airports in the result array to reflect trip order
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright (c) 2009 Jacob Harris. See LICENSE for details.